swaybackn.adj.
A. n.
1.
a. Sway-backed condition. Also, an instance of this.
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swayback1939
a1913 in W. A. N. Dorland Med. Dict.
1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 156 She is a huge, lumbering woman... She has a sway back..and long heels like a hen.
1946 Richmond (Va.) News-leader 14 Nov. 30 (heading) Swayback is figure fault. Exercises quickly correct.
b. A sway-backed horse or lamb. Also transferred, of a person.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > sway-backed person
swayback1874
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > back or types of > condition of being swayed in the back > horse having swayed back
swayback1874
1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 402 The buckskin McClellan was a regular hollow or sway back.
1921 S. Kaye-Smith Joanna Godden i. 35 ‘He'd three sway~backed lambs at Rye market on Thursday.’ ‘Sway~backs!’ ‘Three. 'Twas a shame.’
1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 68 A woman..is either: a short-below-the-waist, a big-hip, a sway-back, a big-abdomen or an average.
1974 M. Laurence Diviners iv. 80 Make pemmican out of the swayback which dropped dead of exhaustion on the Back Forty.
2. A copper deficiency disease affecting the nervous system of young lambs, causing paralysis. Cf. renguerra n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1938 Nature 5 Mar. 400/1 Swayback..accounts from time to time for many lambs.
1947 Sci. News 5 100 Research has been going on into a disease of newborn lambs called swayback.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 105/3 Injection of a copper preparation..into a ewe during pregnancy can prevent swayback in its lambs.
1970 ‘J. Herriot’ If only they could Talk xxv. 149 The diseases which beset the lambs themselves—swayback, pulpy kidney, dysentery.
1980 Daily Tel. 16 Feb. 12/6 Thousands of lambs may die from a nervous disorder called swayback.
B. adj.
Sway-backed.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to the back > sway-backed
swayed1577
sway-backed1680
swayback1887
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular shape of back
saddle-backed?1577
swayed1577
saddleback1677
sway-backed1680
bream-backed1723
swayback1887
1887 T. N. Page In Ole Virginia (1893) 118 A man riding a sway-back sorrel horse.
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n.adj.1874